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Conservatives are funny

Conservatives are really uncomfortable with change. They wish things would stay the way they are forever. You know those jokes you hear about people over 40 needing to get the kids to program their VCRs? They’re conservatives projecting their own inadequacies onto an entire age group. Little do they know that lots of people over 40 got rid of their VCRs ages ago, and DVD recorders cost too much to let bloody kids near them.

I was prompted to think about this again by a piece written by a conservative American blogger who’s just discovered MySpace. Now I know MySpace has only been around since 2003 or something but in internet years, which are even shorter than a dog’s, that’s a lifetime. Yet this bloke writes about MySpace with wide-eyed wonderment. Gosh, did you know you can only make comments on someone’s page if you’ve registered as their friend? And that lots of profiles are not even displayed publicly? Lordy lordy, what won’t they think of next. I guess it’s a welcome change from the normal conservative line, which is to generate hysteria at the damage that MySpace is doing to the nation’s moral fibre.

The truly funny thing is that this innocent abroad claims he’s been retained by ‘the presidential contender I’ll be working for through a consulting company’ to set up a MySpace for a Republican who’s running for president. Given that tens of millions of Americans of voting age already have MySpace pages it’s a sensible move I suppose (and a really really good argument to close your MySpace and move over to Facebook). You’d just think a serious presidential candidate could find someone better quailfied to set up their MySpace page than a dude who only just worked out that some profiles are fakes.